There are more ways to convert your '87 and '93 Fox
Mustang to five lug than you can count on one hand.
One of the many ways is this Fox style five lug conversion
kit from latemodelrestoration.com.
It uses Fox style five lug front rotors, Fox length rear axles
with five lug drums that are compatible with your stock
rear drum brake set-up.
It also includes the needed axles studs, front wheel
bearings, grease seals, gear oil-- just about everything
you need to throw it on your car.
We're going to show you step by step what's
required to install this on your '87 or '93 Mustang.
To start out with the five lug conversion,
support your car in the air and remove all the wheels.
We'll begin with the front by removing the caliper.
Pop off the dust cap, remove the cotter pin, nut retainer, nut,
spacer washer, and outer wheel bearing.
You can then slide your old rotor off the spindle.
Go ahead and clean up all the old grease off the spindle,
as well as off the nut, spacer washer, out of the grease cap,
and nut retainer.
Grab your new rotor, wipe down the bearing races with brake
clean, pack the area in between the bearing races with grease,
and smear some grease on the bearing races.
Pack your wheel bearings with your choice of wheel bearing
grease.
We decided to use royal purple.
Install your inside wheel bearing
followed by the new grease seal.
Smear some grease on the spindle,
slide the rotor into place, slide in your outer wheel
bearing followed by the spacer washer and nut.
Tighten and loosen the retaining nut
several times while rotating the rotor
to fully seat the bearings.
Once you feel the bearings are fully seated, tighten the nut
and loosen it by one flat.
Rotate the nut retainer around until it
you can clearly see the cotter pin hole.
Install your cotter pin, pack some new grease
inside the bearing dust gap, and install the cap into the rotor.
Slide your caliper back into place and bolt it down.
Repeat this for the other side.
Moving on to the rear, remove the 10 cover bolts.
You want to grab you an oil drain pan and remove
the rear cover.
Slide your drums off, rotate your axle
around to where you can access the cross-pin retaining bolt.
Remove the cross-pin retaining bolt.
Remove the cross-pin.
Slide one axle inward and remove the C-clip.
Do this for the other side.
Remove both rear axles.
Grab your new axles and the included 10 wheel studs.
There's several different ways to install these wheel studs.
The tried-and-true method is hammer them into place.
When using these stock wheel studs,
it doesn't take a whole lot of effort.
If you're using aftermarket style ARP long wheel studs,
you will need to enlarge the holes on the axle flange
and use a hydraulic press.
Slide your new axles into the housing
being careful not to nick the outer oil seal.
Slide one axle all the way inward, engage the C-clip,
and push it back out until it locks in place.
Do this for the other axle.
Reinstall you cross-pin and the cross-pin retaining bolt.
Thoroughly clean the face of the axle housing
along with the differential cover.
We always recommend using one of our reusable differential
gaskets.
That way you don't have any RTV silicone mess.
Reinstall the rear differential cover,
tightening down all 10 bolts.
Remove the fill plug from the front of the axle housing,
start filling the housing with oil.
On the second bottle, I normally put in about half the bottle,
then add the bottle of friction modifier
to the remaining half bottle of oil
and finish filling the axle.
Apply some thread sealer to the fill
plug and reinstall the fill plug.
Slide your new drums into place, install your new wheels,
lower the car to the ground.
Of course, the perfect finishing touch
to any five lug conversion kit is
a new set of five lug wheels.
We chose to go with a set of our chrome SVE drag wheels,
and they look mean.
Check out latemodelrestoration.com
to pick up your five lug conversion kit
as well as see the full list of wheel fitments
for this particular kit.